SinikRN101

Personal protection is required by the agency, I keep a stash on me unless I know the patient is stocked up. Outside of that, it depends on you, if you're that uncomfortable and don't need the shift just inform the agency. Some patients homes are cl...

I've seen ABT as short for antibiotic therapy as in documentation on adverse side effects (ase), lack thereof or therapeutic effects.

My suggestion after acls/pals would be to look for a critical care class in your area. Definitely get all the hands on you can with the more complicated cases more experience= increased competencies. Add everything to your resume and apply, apply an...

I also have a lot of those things going on right now. When I attempted to educate parents on the correct uses of medication and advocate for my patient then I'm not "doing things the way they like it" and there are "personality conflicts". Personall...

I've recently learned how to "guide" a conversation sorta speak to find ways to avoid such things. But yes, lesson learned the hard way as I had my hours cut because I was in school, in the future I will lie.

Walk in, greet parent(s)/caregiver full assessment, full set of vitals- assessment and vitals will dictate any priority intervention. Check if patient needs changed/turned/ toileted. Am/Pm cares, oral care, washing face , bed bath etc. Check and gi...

Look into getting your record expunged. Any rehabilitation efforts in addition to the time that has passed would help also. Usually the biggest hurdle is the state board seems like if they granted your license I don't know why an individual employer ...

Do which ever works for you. I usually prefer to go home and go straight to sleep to be awake with my kiddos in the afternoon (after school) and early evening and even tuck them in before I go to work. But for certain things like appts, or special ...

Yes on the consistent schedule. The only person that can change the schedule would be a Doctor's order. Check with your nurse practice act and/or state board. Ours states that we have one hour before and up to one hour after. IE) Order states to give...

When in a situation of mandatory reporting as nurses are it's not an option to report, hence "mandatory reporter". You can tell them (if you so choose) that you need to report because you are a mandatory reporter, if they choose not to have you back...

I used to be able to flip back and forth. After 4-5 years, it's much easier to stay up during my nights off and continue my regular schedule even on my days off. Sometimes I end up watching tv by myself while the family sleeps, but I tell myself it w...

Yes, the lack of professionalism is appalling. They expect us to act like professionals, I expect to be treated as such ie) regulating how much time is needed to sit at a desk and chart and how much is needed at the bedside. And to one of the previou...

I've had the same thing happen to me, I know the feeling. It also creates a very sour work environment. It seems sometimes they are never happy and I've been chalking it up to trying to deal with the loss of the image they had before "the event" what...

Yes I agree. Tasteful, tattoos shouldn't be a problem. Now the letters that are vulgar on the fingers, distasteful things I would probably have a problem with. My patients have asked me about my tattoo, but I haven't had anyone who's had a problem wi...

Thank you to the OP for posting this and getting completely flamed and standing your ground. I know I'm not alone, but I usually can not come up with the right words and certainly not as articulate as you have posted. Currently, I have the learned th...

I know the feeling, but in my own mind... I didn't go to clown college. Although I'm sure it would have been a lot less expensive. I would have told them well if you promised to do it... be my guest (okay probably not, but I would have thought it!). ...

The way I see it, was you chose not to deal with it. While you admit that was your mistake, maybe in the future realize the fatigue is not worth the extra hours and burnout. While working in LTC, there was 2 LVN's and 1 RN for the entire building for...

You are already know you're not like your neighbor I think somewhere deep down inside. Just like you, I got pregnant at as a teen 18 (but still a teen) I've been working and going to school off and on ever since. I lived with my parents while I got m...

I understand when they have a "special speaker" or something and it's mandatory and they can't schedule another time, however, they should at least try to give you the day off. If not, I would call off. I used to work for a facility that did this fre...

I have only heard of two patients = two nurses. A friend of mine told me about a situation where she was in need of feminine products and went to the corner market and came back and was fired from it as it was abandoning the patient even though one n...

I work full time, per diem. usually 4-5/ 8 hr. Noc shifts. Usually all on one pt. If my patient is admitted they scramble to catch me a couple of days. I think it usually just depends on what they have available at any given time, when you are hired,...

I work per diem and had to sign that I would work 4 weekend shifts per month, in the beginning that was fine since we used to get weekend differential, but since they took it away there's no incentive. If I specifically ask for a weekend off I only g...

I get that there are some nurses who try to please people and do more of the "customer service" role. But this is ridiculous I went to school for Nursing not customer service. If I wanted to kiss behind all day I would have picked a different career....

Coming from personal experience if the supervisor doesn't catch these things obviously they don't care. You telling/informing them isn't going to make one bit of difference until it comes time for state inspection. At least that was my experience, I ...

My best advice would be to ask for a patient who can sprint off the vent for at least a few minutes at a time to get comfortable with the vent/trach/suction equipment and alarms to learn what they mean. Next I would know at all times where the back u...